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An editorial from China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday called for “peaceful co-existence” between the United States and China, a goal the Chinese evidently seek to achieve by insulting and belittling everyone who doubts the majestic benevolence of Beijing as a warmongering would-be conquistador.

The 24-hour BBC World Service broadcast will be replaced by Chinese state radio; part of a “mainlandisation” process which the Communist authorities are said to be encouraging.

Contents: India reinforces its military in preparation for war; Bhutan makes it clear to China that its ally is India; SCMP: China and India on brink of war that could spread to the Indian Ocean

Twitter has suspended @McDonalds_HK, after it impersonated an official company promotional account — for more than nine months.

Contents: China bans Winnie The Pooh because Xi Jinping looks like him; Indonesia defies China and renames part of the South China Sea

My top financial advice for the week: #shortTesla. Actually, this has been my top financial advice for some time.

Contents: China builds illegal surface-to-air missile sites in South China Sea; Xi Jinping threatens Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters with ‘Red Line’

The Chinese government has been accused of deliberately “humiliating” the United Kingdom, the former Colonial power that oversaw the transformation of Hong Kong into a global centre of commerce, on the 20th anniversary of the handover of the city.

CNN noted on Monday that Hong Kong residents seeking to emigrate from the island after 20 years of Chinese control now comprise almost 40 percent of the population and 57 percent of those are under 30 years of age.

A man is accused of attempting to bite a flight attendant before jumping from the aircraft at a North Carolina airport Thursday.

A 59.6 carat pink diamond smashed the world record for the priciest diamond ever sold.

China has evidently exceeded its tolerance for democracy along its fringes. There are reports this week that a Taiwanese pro-democracy activist mysteriously vanished during a visit to Macau, while the leaders of 2014’s democracy protests in Hong Kong have been politely arrested.

Chinese President Xi Jinping violated his nation’s long-standing policy of respecting the sovereignty of other nations and opposing “separatism” in a speech to the Arab League calling for a Palestinian state, with its capital in east Jerusalem.

A report in Bloomberg cites a Japanese intelligence agency report suggesting that China is working to embolden separatist groups in Okinawa, just as China has increased its public demands for the world to disregard Taiwan’s sovereignty and observe Beijing’s “One China” policy.

President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to take a courtesy call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen last week has alarmed many in American mainstream media, who argue that acknowledging Tsai as a fellow head of state unnecessarily strains relations with communist China.

When last we checked in on Hong Kong lawmakers Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus “Baggio” Leung, they had been banned from holding office by Beijing, which invoked a seldom-used clause of the “one country, two systems” legal code. One country with 1.5 systems seems closer to the truth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called to congratulate United States President-elect Donald J. Trump six days after news broke that Trump had won election to the office of president.

The democratic election of Republican Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has trigged a bizarre backlash against America’s free and fair election in the radical leftist communities native to the country’s big cities.

Contents: China orders Hong Kong to disqualify anyone not taking ‘sincere’ loyalty oath to China; Hong Kong police prepare for massive street protests; Advice on traveling to China

A British banker was jailed for life on Tuesday for the grisly murders of two Indonesian women whom he tortured and raped in his luxury Hong Kong apartment and confessed to killing.

Street demonstrations in Hong Kong on Sunday ended in a cloud of pepper spray, as Beijing conducted its most dramatic intervention in the semi-autonomous territory’s politics since 1997.

Contents: Hong Kong legislature in chaos, under threat of intervention by mainland China; Sudan follows Uganda, Namibia in cutting ties with North Korea

Filming himself torturing and killing a young Indonesian woman, British investment banker Rurik Jutting veered between boasting, remorse and describing the pleasure he derived from sexually brutalising the first of two victims.

A Hong Kong judge warned jurors that they will have to view video filmed by former British banker Rurik Jutting of the torture and vicious killing of two Indonesian women he is accused of murdering as the trial got under way on Monday.

Contents: Sharply polarized Hong Kong electorate hands Beijing a stinging setback; China’s relations with Hong Kong and Taiwan set to become more tense

Contents: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy ‘Umbrella Movement’ is viewed as a failure; Beijing ‘thuggery’ motivates the rise of the independence movement; Hong Kong debates the independence movement; Hong Kong police prepare for election day riots from pro-independence activists

Contents: UK residential real estate market hit hard by Brexit; The UK housing bubble may finally be collapsing; UK commercial real estate market hard hit by ‘Brexit clauses’

Just days after the British people voted to regain their independence from an unelected bureaucracy, campaigners in Hong Kong have launched a political party agitating for the city to be returned to British rule as a transitional stage towards independence.

AFP — Hong Kong culled 4,500 birds on Tuesday after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in a chicken at a local market. Health officials in white hazmat suits and masks dumped the chickens into green plastic bins

Contents: New Taiwan poll shows overwhelming support for independence from China; China close to imposing an air defense ID zone (ADIZ) in South China Sea

Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Hong Kong to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.

(AFP) – A new art installation on Hong Kong’s tallest building highlighting growing fears about the city’s freedoms under Beijing has been cancelled, authorities announced, saying the artists showed “disrespect”. The artwork was a giant digital countdown to 2047, the

(AFP) – Hong Kong student pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong was released from custody just before midnight Thursday, after being detained for running onto a motorway to intercept the motorcade of a top Chinese official. The move came on the final

Contents: Chinese official slams Hong Kong independence during ‘inspection visit’; Hong Kong’s history and culture make it very different from China

Hong Kong student pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong was among five protesters detained Thursday after they ran onto a motorway to intercept the motorcade of a top Chinese official during a highly-charged visit to the city. Their bid came on the

Protesters gathered in Hong Kong Wednesday calling for universal suffrage and an end to arrests of activists in China as a top Beijing official visits the city. The three-day trip by Zhang Dejiang, who chairs China’s communist-controlled legislature, is the